How does that graduate student know that person is white by just looking at them? Unless they are trying to say that white-passing black folks aren't really black. If so, I can introduce them to a few sociologists who would fight them on it.

The passing debate is one of the "academic" debates with the least intellectual substance. It's arguing over literally archaic, Faulknerian notions of race, and nobody below age 30 gives a flying f**k.

>The passing debate is one of the "academic" debates with the least intellectual substance. It's arguing over literally archaic, Faulknerian notions of race, and nobody below age 30 gives a flying f**k.

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